“It felt like an alien had straddled my cranium and was sucking up whatever good stuff might exist inside my head. The thing was the very definition of a “killjoy.””
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"...if you had told me 20 years ago that I would not only agree to such an excursion but suggest it, I would have told you the notion was ridiculous. And yet."
"I had a manager who suggested several times that I engage in some strategic surgical enhancements. I never did. I had seen a lot of boob jobs at the gym. Some of the young women looked pretty good, but many more looked mutilated."
“There was one such couple here this morning, and if we are going by appearances—and this is America, so we mostly do—they look fresh, confident, and sure-footed, while the rest of us appear shell-shocked and are scuffling about.”
“When I first knew him, he was a bon vivant, a man about town. He seemed to know everyone, and where the ladies were concerned, many of them intimately.”
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"My response to that significant marker of age has been to load myself into a cannon and shoot myself into an orbit of constant activity. A touch of mania, perhaps?"
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Su presencia, discreta pero luminosa, ha inspirado a generaciones que, frente a la pantalla, hallaron en ella un faro de inteligencia, elegancia y fortaleza. 3/3
Puede que el nombre de Beth Broderick evoque, para muchos, la imagen serena y sabia de la tía Zelda en la entrañable Sabrina, la bruja adolescente, pero su legado se extiende mucho más allá de los confines de un solo papel. 1/3
"The thing I love most of all about my new kitchen is the thing he despises with a passion. It’s never easy cohabitating with another creature human or otherwise.